If you missed out on the early sales of The Lone Ranger sets from Walmart last week, Amazon has started accepting pre-orders for some of them with a shipping date set for April 15. They've listed the following:

Not sure why LEGO decided to make new pistols. The old ones were pretty great, these don't look quite right. Look more Playmobil than LEGO, I sometimes think that can go too detailed with updating old molds.

So are the new pistols here to stay? I can see that LEGO would not want to have two molds of the same element however what was wrong worth the old pistol. I see the old pistols as more versitale and less obvious when used as a detail. The new pistol is to spot on to not be recognized as anything else. It looks great if only limited to TLR sets.